Car-coupling



(No Model.)

' H. G. BUGG 8v E. B. LOOMIS.

CAR COUPLING. No. 461,314. Patented-Oct. 13, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY C. BUGG ANQ'EDWARD B. LOOMIS, OF MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,314, dated October13, 1891.

Application filed June 2, 1891. Serial No. 394,818. (No model.)

To all whom Lt may concern,-

Be it known that we, HENRY O. BUGG and EDWARD B. LOOMIS, both ofMemphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented anew and Improved Oar-Coupling,

of which the following is a full, clear, and ex-,

act description.

Our invention relates to improvements in car-couplings, and especiallyto certain improvements which may be attached to ordb narycar-couplings; and the objectof our invention is to produce a simpledevice which will enable two cars to be easily coupled or uncoupledwithout endangering the safety of the brakemen.

To this end our invention consists in certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the views.

Figure 1 is a front perspective view of a device embodying ourinvention. Fig. 2 is a broken vertical section of the coupling, showingit applied to a car; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of thelink-lifter.

The draw-head 10 is of the common kind, having the usual recess and aflaring mouth, and it is supported in a buffer-frame 11 upon a car 12 inthe usual way.. The draw-head is provided with the common link 13 andpin 14, the pin extending vertically through the draw-head, and the pinis connected with a bent arm 15 of a rod 16, extending transverselyacross the end of a car and turning in suitable bearings 17, the saidrod having end cranks 18 adjacent to the sides of the car, and bytipping these cranks the rod may be tipped, thus raising or lowering thelink. The link is also connected with a chain 19, which extends to thetop of the car through a suitable keeper 20, and terminates in a ring20, which normally rests upon the keeper, and

it will thus be seen that by means of the chain the pin may be operatedfrom the top of the car. When either the chain or rod 16 are moved toraise the pin, it will throw the arm 15 back against the front of thecar, and a spring-catch 15 is arranged at this point, so as to'embracethe arm and hold it in a raised position.

A r'od 21,which is supported in hangers 22, extends transversely acrossthe car beneath the coupling, and the rod terminates at its ends incrank-handles 23,by means of which it may be oscillated. The rod 21 hascentrally thereon a forwardly-extending arm 24, which is thus broughtbeneath the draw-head 1 0, and which at its free end is bent upward, asshown at 25, and terminates in. a lifting-plate 26, which plate iscentrally concaved on its upper edge, as shown at 27, to enable it toeasily engage a link, and extending forward and downward from the upperedge of the plate is a lip 28, which thus serves to guide the link of anopposing draw-head into the draw-head 10.

It will thus be seen that this link-lifter provides for coupling cars ofvery dissimilar heights, as the link 13, striking the inclined lip 28,-will be raised at its free end and guided into the draw-head.

The movement of the lifter is controlled from the sides of the car bymeans of the cranks 23, as by turning the cranks and the rod 21 thelifter may be brought into the desired position.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. In a car-coupling, the combination, with adraw-head adapted to receive a link, of a crank-rod extendi ngtransversely beneath the same,a bent arm extending forward from thecrank-rod, a plate secured to the free end of the arm and provided witha concaved upper edge, and an inclined lip extending forwardly anddownwardly from the plate, substantially as described. v

2. In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-head and thecoupling-pin, of a HENRY C. BUGG. EDWARD B. LOOMIS.

Vito esses:

J. P. ALBAN, H. T. THOMS.

